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Feature suggestion: tagging people in posts. * 1
    #28363449 - 06/17/23 04:21 PM (7 months, 8 days ago)

This is a complex feature, probably difficult to implement, and I'm not sure if it would be any good (or it might even cause problems) but I wanted to suggest it anyway:

The ability to tag people in posts so that it somehow notifies those people. Like they do on Slack or Discord. Like if I typed @asante then somehow it would notify him. Maybe you'd need a special notification page similar to what we have for "threads" right now, but for the posts you're tagged in.

On the downside, people might use it for bad purposes to annoy others, or annoying people might use it to tag the admins or mods a lot, or it might be used for trolling, so not 100% sure how good of an idea it is. It just occurred to me when I was posting something and wanted to tag someone so they saw it.

I realize this is a complex and difficult feature to implement with potential downsides, so just wanted to throw it out there. Thanks for all the hard work you guys already put in!


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Re: Feature suggestion: tagging people in posts. [Re: nooneman] * 1
    #28363520 - 06/17/23 04:54 PM (7 months, 7 days ago)

I've considered something similar, and I do think it would be cool. The abuse issue could be worked around with notification controls, or by just providing a list of posts you're tagged in to check at your leisure. One thing kind of holding me back is the decision to allow spaces in usernames. It means you might have to use quotes to tag someone, like @"Some Name" or "@Some Name". It's also unclear how name changes should be handled. If the old name is tagged, should those tags be removed? Or should they stay linked to the user's profile? What about allowing people to un-tag themselves, is that going to be important functionality? I keep getting caught up on stuff like that, which has caused me to relegate the feature to the "someday I'll get around to it" category in my mind. But if there's enough demand and we can hash out the implementation details, it's certainly feasible and I agree it would be nice to have.


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